"If Mark agreed to donate $1"

I think you are missing a zero

"from the sale of each chip to the building fund would that make everyone happy"

I can think of at least one other person that would not be happy
Maybe if he donated the rest of the chips.

"Rene had the good marketing sense"

Rene screwed everybody.

"and was praised as being a wonderful thing to do"

I must have been asleep.